Cozumel GirlPost author

Alaska airlines has a flight go inverted for a while as well over the Pacific Ocean and that looked hellish as well. I plan on going skydiving for the first time later this year and I’m sort of skittish about it. Hopefully it’s not too addictive it’s gotta be better than heroin. Cheers Bill

Occam's RazorPost author

That is a beautiful plane, Is there a reason for not having a general de-icing system to automatically turn on or just on in the area of possible ice. This is totally avoidable in the first place, No one thought of this before?

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Harley ManPost author

This crash sight is about 17 miles from my house in Roselawn,Indiana.Just south of Rt.10 on CR400w……..the crash happened out in the middle of a bean field but there is a memorial up next to the road.Fredia is my lady and I am the guy who knows the nurse who had told me her other nurse friends pet had brought home a hunk of flesh.By that time it was kept guard over from pets and or wild critters from running off with parts.Just one guy witnessed the plane hitting the ground as he was returning from work in the cold rainy evening of Halloween 1994.But many people heard and felt the loud boom when it hit the ground.As far as 2 miles away .The local eatery in Roselawn is where the horror stories circulated about the crash.Many of the volunteers that searched would meet there for coffee.The whole area took a month to clean up about 99% of the plane and flesh.As sad as it sounds….this was mainly poor pilot judgement and the problems of the ATR-72s wing design because of ice build up.Many believe it was 68 people's time to be called home to God.I was there at the memorial several times to leave flowers….or a flag or at least say a prayer.I was not trying to gross people out or give them horrible nightmarish thoughts…..I was just telling exactly what I was told by at least 20 people RIP to all who died that day.

Goose TaterPost author

~ The NTSB crash report made it clear that both the captain and his female first officer were, not only, under paid, over stressed, and over tired, they BOTH had shown signs of incompetency in their training and flying careers. They both proved it when they became distracted talking about extraneous matters during a blind instrument approach in snowy icing conditions, and both STOPPED observing their flight indications, namely, speed, and that they were picking up ice, until their plane stalled, spun, and crashed into the ground. The captain PULLED his flight yoke UP, when the plane nosed down in to a stall, and caused the spin, which was unrecoverable before they hit the ground.

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Napoleon BlownapartPost author

atr''s are pieces of garbage, made to be as cheap as possible, and i say that as an european myself. i actively avoid flights operated by atr's.atleast my airline of choice made the right call to choose q400's and q200's instead of that death trap to fly my island hops.

Craig JohnsonPost author

TheWaywardWindPost author

I worked for Continental Express at this time. The airline moved out ATR's down to the Houston region and our EMB's went up north. A good idea except the weather in south Texas went arctic and the ATR's were grounded. Our regional airport didn't have a plane in our out for over a week. At least nobody died.

Walter HarrisPost author

Theresa MeskePost author

This is an EXTREMELY difficult thing for me to watch. I was working that day for this airline. It departed from and was scheduled to arrive at the gate I was working. I knew the whole crew, horrible tragic. I will never forget this. I am still to this day employed with this company.

Laura MounierPost author

Yeah, I was a passenger on an American Eagle between Atlanta and Panama City Beach FL. That thing was all over the flight path. Up, down, tilt a little too much left and right for my comfort! I couldn't imagine how those pilots managed to keep it in the air. I was terrified and not like me. I thought for sure we were going to crash. I was white knuckling the arms of the seat and I'm a frequent flyer! I was so glad to get off that plane and I vowed to never, ever take another American Eagle flight again. Now, tell me, aren't all of these planes permanently grounded? I thought I heard something like that a while ago. And yes, I never got on another American Eagle.

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bob bobbyPost author

The safety of airliners is practically 100%..but I always think as the pilot does a hard bank while approaching landing…if for some reason the flaps stick..then Im going to die in a spiralling plane, screaming all the way down.

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shrapnel77Post author

Was the Captain seriously going to bang one of the stewardesses in the air? I mean, you want to fool around with them, do it ON THE GROUND. As a pilot 100% of your attention must be focused on pre-flight and fight, including weather. Something tells me his job did not have 100% of his attention. I know the airplane is at fault, but would you want a pilot like this?

annacolleen wesson ettersPost author

I can imagine some of the fear these souls went through because just watching this is making my heart feel strange and I feel like I am getting ready to have an asthma attack. This is why I don't fly. If I can't take a train, or I can't go in our small RV, I just stay home. Fear of flying was not an issue for me until the last 12 years, and it's really the fear of flipping over and falling.

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joseph prosserPost author

Years ago I boarded an ATR flight on a very cold morning. A few of us approaching the boarding stairs noticed that both the tyres seemed somewhat flat with the sidewall reduced to about half the normal dimension. We sat shivering in our cold seats as the ground crew tried forlornly to warm the cabin by blowing hot air from an external heater on the runway via a duct through the front door. After about half an hour the engines had still not been turned on and the captain came instructed over the intercom that we would have to deplane and take a bus back to the terminal. He went on to inform us the reason was that a water tank had been drained and then refilled the night before but that someone had left the drain tap open during the refilling exercise and, as a result, tons of water had accumulated In the lower portion of the plane. Due to the sub zero temperatures this water had frozen solid and hence the squished tyres and futile heating. Ice is not to be underestimated.

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Harry InkpotPost author

Jim I know what you saying in part I agree but it not about him it the incident and the very factual way he do this other channels are headline hunting making entertainment out of disaster that wrong.This channel most professional he do not bring families into it just barebones the emotional side is left to viewer .This only flight channel I watch because of that.

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Kristen SorensenPost author

Amazing dispute the large time in type this crew was clueless as to the weak ability of a boot equipped system to deal with this nasty kind of ice! Too bad they casually killed themselves and a load of unsuspecting passengers. SICKENING!!!